2010 Catalog - Delaware County Community College

CAREER PROGRAMS, CERTIFICATE 69
Paralegal Studies, Certificate of Proficiency
(CPLG)
This program is approved by the The American Bar Association (ABA). The
certificate in Paralegal Studies is intended to educate a generalist paralegal.
Graduates are likely to find employment working under the direction of an
attorney (to do otherwise would be practicing law without a license) in law
firms, legal departments of large corporations, insurance companies, title
companies, legal service companies, and/or federal, state or local
governmental agencies. In short, wherever lawyers are employed, paralegals
are likely to be employed as well.
The certificate of proficiency program in Paralegal Studies may be completed
only by an individual who holds an associate or bachelor's degree with at
least 21earned credits in approved General Education courses.
Upon successful completion of this program, students should be able to:
• Conduct legal research to identify the appropriate laws, judicial decisions,
regulations and other legal literature applicable to specific legal problems.
• Research and draft written memoranda as directed by an attorney.
• Research and draft pleadings and other legal documents as directed by an
attorney.
• Investigate and develop the facts of a case under the direction of an
attorney.
• Assist an attorney to prepare a case for trial and assist during trail.
• Maintain all relevant case documents.
• Maintain files of a case including but not limited to correspondence,
pleadings, reports and briefs.
• Draft basic documents applicable to contracts, real estate transactions,
domestic relations, and estates, trust and wills as well as other appropriate
legal documents.
• Apply modern technology to the performance of legal work and tasks.
• Discuss the ethical issues that arise for the Paralegal Professional.
See Electives Listings, Page 74.
Course
Credits
PLG 100 Introduction to Paralegalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
PLG 110 Legal Research and Writing I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
PLG 120 Legal Research and Writing II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
PLG 140 Contract Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
PLG 199 Co-op Internship or Paralegal Electives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
PLG 200 Family Law. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
PLG 210 Civil Litigation and Tort Principles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
PLG 211 Civil Litigation and Tort Applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
PLG 220 Real Estate Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
PLG 230 Estates, Wills and Trusts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
30
Total Requirements: Associate or bachelor's degree and 30 Paralegal credits.
An Associate in Applied Science degree is also available. See page 52.
Perioperative Nursing,
Certificate of Competency (NURP)
This program is designed to assist professional nurses to expand their
knowledge, increase their sensitivity to human needs and become accountable
to consumers in the nursing practice area of the operating room. Recognizing
the perioperative nurse's ongoing commitment to the surgical patient, the
program offers courses that prepare neophytes for perioperative nursing
practice as well as offering education to the experienced perioperative nurse
who wishes to practice in the expanded role of the RN First Assistant.
Certain manual dexterity and sensory skills that enable the student to
competently perform required technical skills are necessary for successful
completion of the Perioperative Nursing program. Health problems that can
interfere with the applicant's ability to demonstrate achievement of program
competencies are considered individually.
Because perioperative nurses act as advocates for consumers, course work is
offered that develops nursing capability in the management of people and
resources. The program prepares nurses in providing continuous, integrated
care in preoperative assessment, intraoperative intervention, and postoperative
evaluation as either a perioperative staff nurse or RN First Assistant.
Upon successful completion of this program, students should be able to:
• Analyze established standards and recommended practices for
perioperative nursing.
• Identify processes for measuring the quality of patient care.
• Assume responsibility for care given to surgical patients.
• Apply the nursing diagnosis as the prescriptive principle that guides
perioperative nursing activity.
• Use the nursing process as the model for continuous and systematic data
collection for the patient undergoing surgical intervention.
• Value the surgical patient as the center of the broad scope of activities,
which encompass the professional practice of perioperative nursing.
See Electives Listing, Page 74. (Any AHA Course).
Course
Credits
NUS 205 Perioperative Nursing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
NUS 206 Perioperative Nursing Preceptorship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
NUS 207 RN Fist Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
NUS 208 RN First Assistant Internship. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
_______ Health Care Management Elective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
15
Total Credits Required: 15
Photography, Certificate of Competency (PHOT)
This Certificate of Competency is designed to give students the knowledge to
handle the science, craft and artistic merit of photography. The courses offered
in this program provide a platform to bridge the technological gap between
traditional and rapidly changing digital methods. Students will be exposed to
a variety of tools and techniques that employ the use of photographic films,
paper, chemicals, and computer applications in photography.
Upon successful completion of this program, students should be able to:
• Calculate, process and print exposures correctly.
• Pre-visualize subject matter for black and white photographs and determine
film speed.
• Prepare and use toners safely.
• Apply large format camera work to studio subject matter by arranging and
lighting objects to render perspective and depth of field correctly.
• Integrate knowledge of conventional analog into digital photography
techniques.
• Produce a portfolio of black and white or color photographs, which will
incorporate analog and digital techniques.
Course
Credits
ART 160 Black and White Photography I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
ART 161 Black and White Photography II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
ART 162 Black and White Photography III. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
ART 169 Medium and Large Format Photography. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
ART 166 Black and White Digital Negative (or) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ART 175 Color Digital Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
15
Total Credits Required: 15